SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sex Organ, Incest Taboo, Extramarital Sex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Sex the biological distinction between females and males. Primary sex characteristics the genitals, organs used for reproduction. Secondary sex characteristics bodily development, apart from genitals, that distinguishes biologically mature males and females. Intersexual people people whose bodies (including genitals) have both female and male characteristics. Transsexuals people who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other. Gender identity traits that females or males, guided by their cultures, incorporate into their personalities. Incest taboo a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives. Sex is biological, referring to bodily differences between females and males. Gender is cultural, referring to the behavior, power, and privileges a society attaches to being female or male. Sex is determined at conception, as a male sperm joins a female ovum. Males and females have different genitals (primary sex characteristics) and bodily development (secondary sex characteristics) Intersexual people (hermaphrodites) have some combination of male and female genitalia.